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I've gotten the same type of messages responding to my bike ad on Craigslist.   Including the 520-955-8067 number.   But I don't understand how the scam works....?   I did give him my home address and name but what can he do with that?   He is suppose to send a check which I am to cash before giving his "shipper" the bike.   If I have the bank double/tripple check the "check"...how am I at risk?   Please let me know what I'm missing because I'm in the middle of this right now!   :-)  

Thanks for any response!

Sincerely,
Art
[email protected]

Thank god I googled his names/email addresses and found this thread before I gave him my personal info! I had a designers bag on sale on Craigslist Vancouver (Canada) and received these very similar, sketchy emails on the same day.

People beware, I believe he now uses two email addresses and names for his scam: James Ope ([email protected]) and Caroline Kelly ([email protected]).
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<From "James Ope" on May 16, 2012>
Hello!
thanks for getting back to me let's do like this, actually now I'm
not in town for now, I came to visit my family so i wont be able to
meet with you to see the item but am ok with the price as seen on the
advert. I don't mind to give you $50 to withdraw the advert for you to
see how serious i am in the transaction, i will contact my secretary
to issuing  a Check out to you and when you received the check  I will
make arrangement for pick up. So get back to me with below details to
be on the  check asap.

Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Postal Code:
Phone Number:

And as soon as this is provided, the payment will be overnight to you
and i will let you know when its mailed out. I need you to be honest
with the sale as I am a God fearing person.Note. don't worry  about
shipping the items for me as soon as you have the check and have the
check cash my shipper will come over for pick up

Thanks
God Bless
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<From "Caroline Kelly" on May 16, 2012>
I am from st john's, NL and i wish to buy this item for my cousin in  NY 11795. USA and the price is affordable to me,so I would be glad if you can setup a paypal account right now through there website www.paypal.com,and send me your paypal email address account for me to make the payment.i will also like to add $70 for the shipment cost via canadapost .so let me know your decision.maybe you can do that now ASAP.

Cheers
Caroline
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When I replied to "James Ope" and told him that I don't feel comfortable giving out personal info over the internet, he sends me another email as "Caroline Kelly" and suggests Paypal which seems safer and more widely accepted.
What an idiot.

yep I got the same thing:  First the email came from [email protected] asking whether the stuff was in good condition.  When I hit reply to ask for her number to discuss, the reply address changed to [email protected].  I responded anyway and received this back in under 5 minutes.

From: Ope James <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: item listed on craigslist

Hello! thanks for getting back to me let's do like this, actually now
I'm not in town for now, I came to visit my family so i wont be able
to meet with you to see the item but am ok with the price as seen on
the advert. I don't mind to give you $50 to withdraw the advert for
you to see how serious i am in the transaction, i will contact my
secretary to issuing a Check out to you and when you received the
check  I will make arrangement for pick up. So get back to me with below
details to be on the  check asap.

Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Postal Code:
Phone Number:

And as soon as this is provided, the payment will be overnight to you
and i will let you know when its mailed out. I need you to be honest
with the sale as I am a God fearing person.Note you don't need to
worry about shipping the items for me as soon as you have the check
and have the check cash my shipper will come over for pick up

Thanks
God Bless

I got almost the exact thing for an item I put on Craigslist Vancouver BC today.  

From: Caroline Kelly <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:19:26 PM
still for sale?.
Cheers
Caroline

That was the first one and I emailed back saying yes give me a call then she sent this one which has a different email address.  The first address I couldn't find anything on.  this second one with her name is on Facebook and comes up as Caroline Abbey Kelly but can't really find out anything else other than she looks young and belongs to a group on FB called:  Gurusbase.com (nigerian guru's base)  I'm sure it's a scam.  I replied back and said we will only take cash in person.  Don't think I'll be hearing from her again.  If it seems weird it probably is.  I always check email addresses whenever I can hers also comes up in a google search for Craigslist Victoria.

From: caroline kelly <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:53:04 PM
The price is affordable to me,so i would like you to send me your
paypal email address account for me to make the payment now .

Cheers
Caroline

Thanks for posting the details, so that i could find out about this scam. I just got this one this morning.

I haven't gotten any calls, just emails so far.